Hampshire Gardens Trust magazine Winter 2020/Spring 2021 Registered Charity No: 1165985 PRESIDENT Gilly Drummond OBE, DL, HON FLI, VMM CHAIRMAN Ted Wake ADMINISTRATOR Jo Bolt EDITORIAL TEAM Sally Miller, Sue Gordon DESIGN Dawn Terrey ADVERTISING managed by Jo Bolt Printed in Hampshire using materials accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council by so23print.co.uk © Hampshire Gardens Trust, 2020 Reproduction of any article in whole or in part without prior written consent is prohibited. If you are interested in Hampshire’s heritage of historic parks and gardens and are concerned about how they can be protected, if you believe that children and young people benefit from engaging with gardens and gardening, and if you know that access to green spaces is vital for the well-being of all of us, then please join us. You can visit gardens, join our Research, Education and Conservation & Development teams, or support us by becoming a member or making a donation. Membership forms and all information available from The Administrator Hampshire Gardens Trust Jermyns House, Jermyns Lane Ampfield, Romsey, SO51 0QA Tel: 01794 367752 Email:
[email protected] Website: www.hgt.org.uk The Trust office is at Jermyns House, located within the Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum, by kind permission of Hampshire County Council. FRONT COVER Kim Wilkie’s designed landscape at Shawford Park, with the city of Winchester in the background. The garden and park are set in the South Downs within the Itchen water meadows, blending into the wider landscape with an intricate pattern of rills which form a unique chalk stream haven for the rare Southern Damselfly.